What is theology? --- 2

What is theology? --- 2

The reason for human dignity can be found in the fact that the holy God created creatures to praise him. Since God created the world, there are connections and similarities between creation. Therefore, we must live together in a beautiful community while respecting each other, and reveal the fragrance of Christ and go together in the way of salvation. Providence can be defined as “an example of the order of things toward the end”. God ultimately wants to build a community with creatures. Even though it may seem that you have not punished evil, God will heal all evil and injustice in your life at the completion of history through providence. We believe in God, who is the source of the goal for all creation and leads all history toward the completion of that goal. It is to understand the history of this world as an eschatological redemption history. We all have a common identity by being built from one God. In order to grasp our own identity, we need to grasp for what purpose God created us. Each person must rely on God, and it is contradictory that the body, soul, and spirit rely separately. It should be understood that whether or not the three have different functions, the “unified whole” depends on God. Even if a person has fallen and has lost the image of God, as Martin Luther said, it is possible to recover with “the Word and the Holy Spirit”. After all, the image of God is Adam and Christ before the Fall. Calvin elaborated on Luther's theory that through the process of sanctification, which resembles Christ, God's image is gradually restored in us. Reformers, however, conclude that the restoration of the perfect image does not take place in reality, and that it is only completed in another life.

In the light of the eschatological purpose of God's image, it must be viewed as a community in Christ, and it is a church. We belong to the church community to practice the love, the nature of Christ. Our Lord Himself said, "If anyone wants to save his life, he will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me will find it" (Matthew 16:23). . This is a reminder of the apostle Paul's martyrdom to wash away his sins. We must restore God's image by living in obedience to the purpose of God's creation, by working the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of the Triune God, within us. In Christianity we have to admit that Jesus is the one who has the complete divinity and the complete humanity and discovers two perfect natures in one person. In other words, the concept of'Jesus as Logos' emphasizes the creative and revelatory aspects of God, and the concept of'Jesus the Son' highlights the historical aspect of Jesus. Not only that, we learned from the Bible's evidence that Jesus Christ is the only Son, the divine Son of God and the incarnation of the virgin birth, not the result of human lust. This mission of Jesus Christ was human salvation through the ransom death, and we can see that soteriology is based on Christianity.

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